Date: Friday, October 26 Location: 1063 Vari Hall Time: 3:00 pm
Professor James MacKinnon is currently the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Econometrics in the Department of Economics at Queen's University, where he spent his entire academic career. MacKinnon graduated with a BA degree from York University and received his MA and PhD degrees from Princeton. In 2001 to 2002, MacKinnon served as President of the Canadian Economics Association. He has published many outstanding articles in econometrics. For his contributions to scholarship, he has been elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Royal Society of Canada.
Professor MacKinnon will give a talk on "How Cluster Robust Inference is Changing Applied Econometrics".